Means for attaching garment-fasteners.



W. L. BARRON.

MEANS FOR ATTACHING GARMENT FASTENERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3. 1914.

1,2053 1 8. Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES:

WILLIAM L. BARRON, OF NEW YORK, N. ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MEANS FOR ATTACHING GARME1\T T-FASTENERS.

Application filed June 3, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM L. BARRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Attaching Garment-Fasteners, of which the following, is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to means for securing to the opposed and overlapping flaps of a garment the separable parts or sections of a snap-fastener; and it has for its object to apply to each of said fastener-sections a group of fastening stitches which will not only securely attach said section to the respective flap of the garment when the component sections are in engaging or fastening relation for resisting normal strains upon the garment, but to prevent disturbance of the attaching stitches when the garment flaps are forcibly drawn apart at one side of the fastener to disengage said sections.

The present improvement is designed particularly for securing in position the component sections of that class of fasteners of which one section is formed as a disk provided with a centrally projecting ball or convex protuberance adapted for engagement by spring catches within a central cavity of the other section entered by said ball or protuberance, both sections being provided with thread-apertures at opposite sides of the fastening means afforded by its interengaging parts. According to the pres ent invention, attaching stitches penetrate said apertures and each of the respective fabrics so as to produce a closed series of fastening stitches. with additional anchoring stitches extending oppositely over the edge of each disk in alinement with the adjacent fastener.

By the present improvement each fastener section is securely attached to the fabric adjacent its fastening means and its edge is securely anchored to the fabric on the side adjacent which the latter is drawn awayv from the face of the over-lapping fabric for disengagementof the fastener-sections when the closure of the garment is to be opened. By the employment of fastening stitches confined wholly within the circumference of the fastener-disk, the strain imposed upon the garment in separating he two flaps has Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

Serial No. 842,696.

heretofore caused the resistance to disengagement of the fastener-sections to produce a yielding of each section upon its respective fabric so as to impose an excessive strain upon the attaching stitches. The application of a large number of stitches to the disk through its thread-apertures in order to make the section more secure produced bunches of threads which interfered with the effective application of the interengaging fastener-section of the overlying fabric; but by applying a few anchoring stitches over the edges of the disk subjected to such strain, the fastener-disk is caused to cling closely to the fabric at the point where the strain is received, thereby preventing the prying action of such pull upon the fabric and the disk and preventing abnormal strain upon the principal fastening stitches within the circumference of the disk.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of two overlying fabrics having applied thereto by means of the present improvement the interengaging sections of a plurality of snap-fasteners; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section, upon a larger scale, of port-ions of such fabrics with attached fastener-sections in interengaging relation.

The overlying fabrics a and b may constitute the flaps at the closure of a garment which has attached to their inner or adjacent faces the disks 1 and 2 of interengaging fastener-sections of well-known construction. The disk 1 has itsperiphery turned in to form a bead 1 upon one face and is formed centrally upon the opposite face with the ball or protuberance 3 which is slightly necked between its spherical outer end portion and the disk. It is shown provided near its rim with a series of four thread-apertures 4: extending through the same and arranged in parallel lines at opposite sides of the protuberance 3. The disk 2 also has its periphery turned in to form a hollow bead 2 upon the face opposite the disk 1 and is formed centrally with a cavity or Socket 5 extending in the same direction as the bead 2 and adapted to receive the protuberance 3 of the disk 1. The catchspring 6 is housed mainly within the peripheral bead 2, with its extremities 6 entering lateral apertures of the cavity 5 for yielding engagement with the necked portion of the fastening element 3, all as represented in Fig. 2. This disk 2 has also near its periphery a series of thread-apertures 7 arranged in parallel lines at opposite sides of the fastening element 5. The disks 1 and 2 are attached to their respective fabrics in precisely the same manner. Each is secured in position by a closed series of stitches s penetrating the fabric through the apertures iand 7, respectively, and overlying the face of the disk intermediate such aper tures from each of which extends in parallel lines disposed in alinement with' the adjacent fastenersection the anchoring stitches 15 passing over the edges of the disk upon opposite sides thereof. In practice, the stitches are formed of interlocked upper and lower threads such as are produced by the well-known Singer No. 68 flat-button sewing machine, the ends of the upper and lower threads being tied together in the final needle-puncture through one of the thread-apertures of the fastener-section.

When the fastener-sections are secured in position by means of an automatically operated sewing machine, such as that of my application Serial No. 842,695 filed simultaneously herewith, a series of four attaching switches is firstlaid within the periphery of the fastener-disk by successive penetration of the needle through the several thread-apertures, the needle then steps over the edge of the disk from the initial aperture to form the first anchoring stitch t and thence backwardly and across the edge of the disk to the second aperture and over the opposite edge of the disk from which it returns to the second aperture. It then advances to the third aperture and across the edge of the disk in a direction parallel with the other anchoring stitches, after which it traverses the third and fourth apertures and steps over the edge of the disk and thence returns to the fourth hole through which it makes several descents to effect the tying of the upper and lower threads preparatory to the severing of the latter at the completion of the stitching operation.

lVhile the order of application of the fastening stitches above given is preferable in the use of the type of machine referred to, this is evidently not essential to the present improvement, which comprises groups or series of fastening stitches extending through, across and over the opposite edges of the fastener disk and connected by trans verse stitches also passing through the said disk to strengthen the anchorage provided by the primary fastening stitches.

As represented in Fig. 1, each disk is secured in position by means of a series of seven fastening stitches and eight anchoring stitches extending oppositely over the edges thereof, but it is evident that the number of such stitches is immaterial to the present improvement, and will be determined by the individual conditions under which the fasteners are used.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what I claim herein is 1. The combination of a fabric, a gar 1nentfastener comprising a disk formed with fastening means and with threachapertures through the same at opposite sides of said fastening means, and a plurality of cries of fastening stitches entering said apertures and overlying said disks intermediate the same and extending over the edge of the disk on two opposite sides thereof, said series of fastening stitches being con nected together by additional fastening stitches disposed transversely thereof and also passing through said disk.

The combination of a fabric, a garment-fastener comprising a disk formed with fastening means and with thread apertures through the same at opposite sides of said fastening means, and fastening stitches entering said apertures and overly .ing said disk intermediate the same and extending over the edge of the disk in parallel lines on two opposite sides thereof.

3. The combination of a fabric, a garment-fastener comprising a circular disk formed centrally with fastening means and having a surrounding series of thread-apertures extending through the same, and fastening stitches penetrating said threadapertures and wholly surrounding said fastening means and extending at opposite sides thereof in parallel lines across the ed ge of said disk and penetrating the fabric beyond the same.

4-. The combination of a fabric, a plurality of garment-fa steners spaced apart and each comprising a disk formed with fastening means and with a series of thread-apertures through the same at opposite sidesof said fastening means, and fastening stitches entering the thread-apertures of each of said disks and extending oppositely over the edges of the same in substantial alinement with those of an adjacent garment-fastener.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM L. BARRON.

Witnesses:

HENRY J. MILLER, HENRY A. KORNEMANN, Jr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,205,318, granted November 21, 1916, upon the application of William L. Barron, of New York, N. Y., for an inrprovement in Means for Attaching Garment-Fasteners, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 88, for the word has read have; page 2, line 29, for the word switches read stitches; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 2d day of January, A. D., 1917.

' i R. F. WHITEHEAD,

Acting Commissioner of Patents,

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